From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 22 23:53:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA29837 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 23:53:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay.philips.nl (ns.philips.nl [130.144.65.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA29807 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 23:53:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by relay.philips.nl (8.6.9/8.6.9-950414) id IAA01392 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 08:53:36 +0200 Received: from unknown(192.26.173.32) by ns.philips.nl via smap (V1.3+ESMTP) with ESMTP id sma001327; Mon Sep 23 08:53:06 1996 Received: from aonc01.nym.sc.philips.com (aonc01.nym.sc.philips.com [130.144.70.193]) by smtp.nl.cis.philips.com (8.6.10/8.6.10-0.9z-02May95) with ESMTP id IAA08520 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 08:56:06 +0200 Received: from NLNMG01.nym.sc.philips.com (nlnmg01 [130.144.80.6]) by aonc01.nym.sc.philips.com (8.6.10/8.6.10-1.2a-960822) with ESMTP id IAA01880 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 08:53:46 +0200 Received: from NLNMG01/MAILQUEUE by NLNMG01.nym.sc.philips.com (Mercury 1.21); 23 Sep 96 08:53:52 +0100 Received: from MAILQUEUE by NLNMG01 (Mercury 1.21); 23 Sep 96 08:53:32 +0100 From: "Kees Jan Koster" Organization: Philips Semiconductors Nijmegen To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 08:53:22 GMT+0100 Subject: Re: Grand Unified Unix Reply-to: Kees.Koster@nym.sc.philips.com Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Message-ID: <2E9776D4395@NLNMG01.nym.sc.philips.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hmmm. Don't flame me, but every time I see GUU, I read GNU :-} I like the idea, and I agree 100%, but it seems to me that at least part of it is already there. On my machine I keep 2 versions of all major programs I use (i.e. make, gcc, shells etc.): one for system maintenance (csh, /bin/make and cc) and one for the rest of my work (bash, gmake and gcc 2.7.2). Excuse me for thinking that's double work, but I find I work best with those tools and not the standard system tools, because I know they are available, in exactly the same form, on any system I have worked with so far. Yes, I could learn to use /bin/make, but I know that it won't work the same on HP-UX and SunOS and Solaris and Linux. Gmake will. ... hmmm ... I guess I will be bombarded with this GPL stuff now, and I don't have it here. Is there anything in this GPL that keeps a major company from actually _using_ gmake and bash? Or, if they publish a chunk of source, expect the recipient to have GNU tools available?-------------------------------------------v- Kees Jan Koster tel. NL-24-3555870 Hatertseweg 468 6533 GV Nijmegen Thi*&@s_sIg*nATure m(&#$@ay-aPp@#*ear gAr(&bled_to-*$M%ailba$rf(tm)_im*&$paired ---------------------------------------------